This is a sort of "Zorro" meets the "Scarlet Pimpernel" - a colourful, swashbuckling offering from Bruce Humberstone that allows our hero Tony Curtis to pretty much run riot! He is the flamboyant, debonaire Royalist determined to rescue his friends, ransom the agents of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and engage in a bit of flirting with the daughter "Laurette" (Coleen Miller) of the plotting, ambitious "Duc de…
The Purple Mask (1955)
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really the Duc de Latour's daughter). But even she doesn't know the Purple Mask's real identity as foppish dancing master Rene...
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Tony Curtis
Rene de Traviere / The Purple Mask
Colleen Miller
Laurette de Latour
Gene Barry
Captain Charles Laverne
Dan O'Herlihy
Brisquet
Angela Lansbury
Madame Valentine
George Dolenz
Marcel Cadonal
John Hoyt
Rochet
Donald Randolph
Andre Majolin
Robert Cornthwaite
Napoleon Bonaparte
Stephen Bekassy
Baron de Morleve
Paul Cavanagh
Duc de Latour
Myrna Hansen
Constance de Voulois
Allison Hayes
Irene de Bournotte
Jane Howard
Yvonne de Tressy (as Betty Jane Howarth)
Carl Milletaire
Edouard
Gene Darcy
Vicomte de Morsanne
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What is The Purple Mask about?
France, 1803: 11 years after the Revolution, a royalist underground is led by a new 'Scarlet Pimpernel', the Purple Mask, who rescues nobles in distress and kidnaps Napoleon's officials for ransom, aided by the spy services of a group of lovely models headed by Laurette (really…
When was The Purple Mask released?
The Purple Mask was released in 1955.
What genres does The Purple Mask belong to?
The Purple Mask is categorised as Adventure.
Who stars in The Purple Mask?
The cast of The Purple Mask includes Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry, Dan O'Herlihy, Angela Lansbury.